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Artworks
End piece from canape confident or 3-sectioned upholstered sofa
Louis Magdaleine Pluvinet, French, became master in 1775; d. 1782–1785
furniture, decorative arts, chair — gilded wood, fabric · 1780
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Angel
Giuseppe Sammartino
Polychromed terracotta head; wooden limbs and wings; body of wire wrapped in tow; various fabrics · 1750
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Angel
Giuseppe Sammartino
Polychromed terracotta head; wooden limbs and wings; body of wire wrapped in tow; various fabrics · 1700
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sacrifice of Jeptha's Daughter
François Boitard
Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash on cream laid paper, laid down on fabric, laid down on cream wove paper · 1680
Art Institute of Chicago
Casket
Frances Basnet
embroidery & stitching, casket — medium: wood, silk, glass beads technique: wooden casket covered with satin fabric and embroidered with glass beads label: wooden casket covered with silk satin and embroidered with glass beads · 1654
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Mucius Scaevola Crossing the Tiber, Intending to Assassinate Porsenna but Killing his Treasurer by Mistake
Polidoro da Caravaggio
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on brown laid paper, laid down on fabric and card · 1580
Art Institute of Chicago
Death of Niobe's Children
Maarten de Vos
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on fabric · 1552
Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of a Clergyman (Johann Dorsch?)
Albrecht Dürer
oil on parchment on fabric · 1516
National Gallery of Art
Dido and Aeneas Embracing before Gates of Carthage
Maarten de Vos
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on fabric · 1500
Art Institute of Chicago
Triptolemus
Maarten de Vos
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on fabric · 1500
Art Institute of Chicago
Female Power Figure (Kithuti)
Kamba
Wood, metal, [conus?] shell, glass beads, and fabric/textile
Art Institute of Chicago
Lady in Bonnet
Chapman, n.d.
hollow cut paper on fabric
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Boy
Doyle, n.d.
hollow cut paper and ink on fabric
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Young Girl
Doyle, n.d.
hollow cut paper and ink on fabric
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Boy in Cap
Williams, n.d.
hollow cut paper on fabric
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Hand Family
Peale Museum
hollow cut paper on fabric
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Masks and props
Joan Jonas
Rubber, papier-mache, metal mesh, fabric, ribbon, fabric, plastic, wood, glass, stone, and other materials
Museum of Modern Art
Model 47 HS radio
Achille Castiglioni
Painted wood and mesh fabric
Museum of Modern Art
Untitled
Conrad Marca-Relli
Cut fabric and wax on paper on board
Museum of Modern Art